Scuba Professional: Insights into Sport Diver Training & Operations

Scuba Professional is the natural successor to Simon Pridmore's first book, Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. Whereas Scuba Confidential focused on how to scuba dive, Scuba Professional looks at how diving is taught and how dive operations are conducted.

Scuba Professional is an excellent source of out-of-the-box ideas and independent, objective advice for instructors and dive operators.

It is also an indispensable guide for those aspiring to become dive professionals with chapters such as Do You Have What It Takes? and Which Training Agency?

Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them

Two divers fascinated by the undersea life of the Caribbean, fail to notice that a strong current is rapidly sweeping them away from their unattended boat. Another diver, after a seemingly brief time below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run dangerously low. A diver, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained divemaster attempts a rescue, things go from bad to worse.

These are just a few of the true stories you’ll find in Diver Down, most of them involving diver error and resulting in serious injury or death. Each story is analysed in-depth, showing what went wrong and how to recognize and avoid similar calamities.

This is a unique survival guide exploring different diving situations including wreck and cave diving, deep water dives, drift diving, decompression illness, and much more. It shows you how to prevent similar tragic mishaps.

Scuba Professional: Insights into Sport Diver Training & Operations

Scuba Professional is the natural successor to Simon Pridmore's first book, Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. Whereas Scuba Confidential focused on how to scuba dive, Scuba Professional looks at how diving is taught and how dive operations are conducted.

Scuba Professional is an excellent source of out-of-the-box ideas and independent, objective advice for instructors and dive operators. It is also an indispensable guide for those aspiring to become dive professionals with chapters such as Do You Have What It Takes? and Which Training Agency?

Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them

Two divers fascinated by the undersea life of the Caribbean, fail to notice that a strong current is rapidly sweeping them away from their unattended boat. Another diver, after a seemingly brief time below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run dangerously low. A diver, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained divemaster attempts a rescue, things go from bad to worse.

These are just a few of the true stories you’ll find in Diver Down, most of them involving diver error and resulting in serious injury or death. Each story is analysed in-depth, showing what went wrong and how to recognize and avoid similar calamities.

This is a unique survival guide exploring different diving situations including wreck and cave diving, deep water dives, drift diving, decompression illness, and much more. It shows you how to prevent similar tragic mishaps.

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness

A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of "black mayonnaise." Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as "beach whistles."

In the 1990s, work began on a 10-mile-long tunnel and a state-of-the-art treatment plant to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin.

But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death.

An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population's rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk - how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred - and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe.

Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel - behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible - lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.

Shadow Divers

The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. This true story tells the tale of two weekend Scuba divers who risk everything to solve a great historical mystery, and in turn end up making history themselves.

In the fall of 1991, not even these divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface. Laying sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey in the frigid Atlantic waters is a World War II German U-boat, buried under decades of accumulated sediment.

Author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is thrilling and emotionally complex. It's written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the ocean’s underworld.

The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened at 230 feet below the surface.

Caverns Measureless to Man

Caverns Measureless to Man is the story of the passion of an extraordinary individual who spent his life exploring underwater caves.

For nearly 30 years Sheck Exley was setting records and developing techniques while maintaining the highest standards of excellence. Sheck lived a life of adventure, danger and excitement to a degree that many people only ever dream of.

This book may terrify you but it will also fascinate you and in the end, Sheck Exley will convince you that his death came to him in the midst of the incredibly intense joy he took in diving into the depths of the earth.

This is one of my husband's personal favorites as it includes caves in Southern Australia that he's dove, and many people are unaware of.

Dive Atlas of the World, 2016 Edition: An Illustrated Guide to the Best Sites

Ocean - The Definitive Visual Guide

Ocean - the Definitive Visual Guide Second Edition - is up to date with the latest scientific research, coverage of major events like Superstorm Sandy and the Fukushima tsunami, and new graphics and images.

From the physical and geological processes that affect the ocean floor to the key habitat zones, flora, and fauna, this is the definitive reference to our world's oceans.

Ocean includes an atlas of the world's oceans and seas compiled using brand-new 3-D Earth modeling, satellite data, and remarkable photography.

With new expeditions to its depths, the wonder and power of the ocean is as strong today as it's ever been, with new discoveries beneath melting ice, in developing reefs, and on shores around the world.

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